“It is appropriate for a reviewer to judge a work by the standards of its style or genre. You wouldn’t judge the worth of a mystery by the standards defining first rate science fiction or literary fiction, for instance. The key difference separating the thriller and other genres from literary fiction lies in how the former relies on established time-tested formulas. We see that in Burt Weissbourd’s Danger in Plain Sight, the author’s fifth novel overall and first in a new series revolving around Seattle restaurateur Callie James. Much of the new novel obeys traditional “rules” for thriller novels, but there are crucial parts of the book separating it from run of the mill efforts in the genre…”
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